A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. |
I for one believe that not enough has been made of the tragedy of the destruction of 6 million Jews. Somebody has to cry-even if it's a writer, 20 years later. |
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought. |
If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you. |
It was all those biographies in me yelling, "We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you." |
Life is a tragedy full of joy. |
Life is a tragedy full of joy. |
Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three-or throw them away and look for others. |
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing |
Stay with it. . . ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself. |
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly. |
The Natural |
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction. |
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall. |
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are. |